[Pkg-samba-maint] Bug#463378: smbfs: Cannot tonnect to Win98 host

[Steve Langasek]

On Thu, Jan 31, 2008 at 09:58:31AM +0100, Elmar Haneke wrote:
> Package: smbfs
> Version: 3.0.28-2+b1
> Severity: normal

> I cannot mout shares from Win98 Hosts since only "cifs" is tryed which does
> not support Win98.

> The filesystem "smbfs" seems to be ignored by smbfs package.

> This breaks networking.

Please use the "servernetbiosname" option when connecting to Win98 servers.
This is currently being discussed upstream; I agree that it's a bug which
should be fixed, though I'm not sure if/when this will happen.

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